My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 06:51 sati.